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Lance Armstrong Doping History
On Jun 5, 12:44*am, Zenon wrote:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/16226502/L...Doping-History Oh boy: (quoting) As one who was attracted to the sport in large measure by the perso- nalities of LeMond, Hampsten, Bauer et al., there is now a tragic sense of things having gone terribly wrong.Their legacy as honest, gentleman competitors and the reverence in which they held their sport have been trampled underfoot, perhaps even lost entirely.The glory of the 1980s, luminous with the courage and earnestness which once made professional cycling an honorable calling, is now faded and distant, eclipsed by the dark realities of doping and excessive influence from financial/corporate interests. (end quote) Wow. Attracted to Greg Lemond's personality. "Luminous, with courage and earnestness which once made professional cycling an honorable calling..."? Gag me with purple prose. --D-y |
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Lance Armstrong Doping History
On 6/5/2011 10:32 AM, --D-y wrote:
On Jun 5, 12:44 am, wrote: http://www.scribd.com/doc/16226502/L...Doping-History Oh boy: (quoting) As one who was attracted to the sport in large measure by the perso- nalities of LeMond, Hampsten, Bauer et al., there is now a tragic sense of things having gone terribly wrong.Their legacy as honest, gentleman competitors and the reverence in which they held their sport have been trampled underfoot, perhaps even lost entirely.The glory of the 1980s, luminous with the courage and earnestness which once made professional cycling an honorable calling, is now faded and distant, eclipsed by the dark realities of doping and excessive influence from financial/corporate interests. (end quote) Wow. Attracted to Greg Lemond's personality. "Luminous, with courage and earnestness which once made professional cycling an honorable calling..."? Gag me with purple prose. --D-y "Luminous" personality? Wow. To me he never seemed poised in front of a microphone. Funny the little things that stick in your mind. I remember him once blaming a loss on having caught a virus from his son Geoffrey. I only got away with blaming my kid once. Steve |
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